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IFBwax
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Post by IFBwax » Tue Mar 12, 2013 5:20 pm

Please answer me a question.

Which were the correct seats on a 1976 Convertible bug?

The all in one seats with the headrest built into the frame?

Or the two piece ones that are adjustable?

When did they change?

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Post by hambone » Tue Mar 12, 2013 5:32 pm

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Post by IFBwax » Tue Mar 12, 2013 5:43 pm

Great.. brochures on there show both kinds.
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Post by SlowLane » Tue Mar 12, 2013 6:05 pm

So use one of each. Ya got two seats... :joker:
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Post by dtrumbo » Thu Mar 14, 2013 7:40 am

This is by no means a definitive answer but scroll down to the bottom of this page:

http://www.wolfsburgwest.com/wolfsburg_ ... covers.cfm

It indicates that '77 was the start of the two-piece headrest.
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Post by Amskeptic » Thu Mar 14, 2013 8:11 am

IFBwax wrote:Great.. brochures on there show both kinds.

Look deeper, IFBwax. The brochure makers were famous for shortcuts. The 1971 bus brochure was actually a gussied-up 1970 bus in the pictures even as they crooned about the new disk brakes and ventilated drop-disk wheels! They must have thought we were idiots.

The new headrests came in 1977. The 1977 year after the 1976 year brochures show the exact same (earlier) bug at the bank drive-through, though with a "photoshopped" color change. Pathetic. But read the print:

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BobD - 78 Bus . . . 112,730 miles
Chloe - 70 bus . . . 217,593 miles
Naranja - 77 Westy . . . 142,970 miles
Pluck - 1973 Squareback . . . . . . 55,600 miles
Alexus - 91 Lexus LS400 . . . 96,675 miles

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Post by dtrumbo » Thu Mar 14, 2013 8:19 am

VWoA wrote:...Beetles now feature a permanent oil filling that, incredibly enough, requires no routine oil changes.
Wha???
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1979 Super Beetle convertible.

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Post by sped372 » Thu Mar 14, 2013 8:31 am

dtrumbo wrote:
VWoA wrote:...Beetles now feature a permanent oil filling that, incredibly enough, requires no routine oil changes.
Wha???
Transaxle, not engine.
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Post by Amskeptic » Thu Mar 14, 2013 8:35 am

sped372 wrote:
dtrumbo wrote:
VWoA wrote:...Beetles now feature a permanent oil filling that, incredibly enough, requires no routine oil changes.
Wha???
Transaxle, not engine.
You're right, but definitely imprecise ad copy!
Colin
(you noted the incorrect headrests in the bug in the ad touting the new headrests?)
BobD - 78 Bus . . . 112,730 miles
Chloe - 70 bus . . . 217,593 miles
Naranja - 77 Westy . . . 142,970 miles
Pluck - 1973 Squareback . . . . . . 55,600 miles
Alexus - 91 Lexus LS400 . . . 96,675 miles

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Post by sped372 » Thu Mar 14, 2013 8:37 am

Wonder if it was intentional or not, I had to read it twice myself.
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Post by IFBwax » Fri Mar 15, 2013 11:19 am

Nice Colin!!!! Yep... words and pics don't match. Not good for a National ad from a major corporation. So anyways, (and I like saying "anyways" because a cute girlfriend of mine always said that) that means my seats are correct!!! Woot!!! On to more fun.
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Post by Amskeptic » Tue Mar 19, 2013 2:50 pm

IFBwax wrote:Nice Colin!!!! Yep... words and pics don't match. Not good for a National ad from a major corporation. So anyways, (and I like saying "anyways" because a cute girlfriend of mine always said that) that means my seats are correct!!! Woot!!! On to more fun.
That corporate culture at VWoA was so skanky, so utterly clueless, so arrogant! so small-minded, that they were scraping the scum off the rim of the toilet bowl by 1976, then it got worse. The best-selling imported car in 1970 was almost out of the market by 1990.

Anyways, don't get me started on corporate skank and cluelessness and arrogance and small-mindedness . . . . :alien:
BobD - 78 Bus . . . 112,730 miles
Chloe - 70 bus . . . 217,593 miles
Naranja - 77 Westy . . . 142,970 miles
Pluck - 1973 Squareback . . . . . . 55,600 miles
Alexus - 91 Lexus LS400 . . . 96,675 miles

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